Objective
The following specific objectives have been identified:
* To provide a setting for exchange of expertise and collaboration between participating research groups through annual meetings & workshops.
* To provide information regarding appropriate graduate and post-graduate research training in Africa or in Europe for African candidates.
* To focus on a number of research issues of relevance to all participants, including:
- Examine and analyze the cultural relevance of existing theories on adolescent health behaviours and practices, as well as the social and cultural context of such practices;
- Examine and analyze qualitative research methods relevant and appropriate when studying adolescent health services, adolescent health and behaviours;
- Examine and analyze research instruments employed in quantitative studies of adolescent health seeking behaviours, adolescent health and sexual and reproductive health-related behaviours;
- Examine and analyze various settings for health promotion among adolescents;
* Based on experiences and findings from ongoing projects included in the network, develop guidelines for culturally relevant and appropriate health promotion programmes.
* Based on experiences and findings from ongoing projects included in the network, develop guidelines for culturally relevant and appropriate evaluation strategies for health promotion programmes.
Expected Outcome
Improved coordination, as well as theoretical and methodological qualities of the involved projects. The project will create an arena for critical discussion and dissemination of information regarding effective intervention strategies in the area of adolescent reproductive health. A number of collaborative scientific publications and a joint book presenting results and experiences from the included projects in a format accessible to health workers, educators, youth workers and activists, as well as community leaders throughout the region.
some important addresses:
ARHNe Co-ordinating Center
Ms. Marina de Paoli
Institute for Nutrition Research
University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1046 Blindern
Phone: +47-22851360
Fax: +47-22 851341
E-mail:m.s.d.paoli@basalmed.uio.no
N-0316 Oslo
Norway
ARHNe Resource Center
Dr. Anna Kessy
Dep. of Community Health
Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences
P.O. Box 65015
Phone: +255-51 150302 Ext.236
Fax: +255-51 150563
E-mail: arhne@muchs.ac.tz or akessy@muchs.ac.tz
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
WHO/ADH Geneva
Krishna Bose
20 Avenue Appia
Fax: +41-227914189
E-mail : bosek@who.ch
1211 Geneva 21
Switzerland
SIDA
Anna Runeborg
Phone: +46-8 698500
Fax: +46-8 208864
E-mail: anna.runeborg@sida.se
S-105 25 Stockholm
The main activities are organized around annual meetings and workshops. The first such meeting was conducted October 5-10, 1997 in conjunction with the 8th International Congress of the World Federation of Public Health Associations in Arusha, Tanzania. The second workshop was held in Harare, Zimbawe, October 11-16, 1998. The third meeting was held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 3-8, 1999. The fourth and last meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenia, October 1-6, 2000.
Topics to be addressed during the annual meetings/workshops include:
* Behavioural and social science theory with special emphasis on reproductive health and problem behaviours
* Qualitative and quantitative methods for research on health related behaviours
* Health promotion strategies in developing countries
* Practical network activities (including electronic communication/World-Wide-Web)
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences educational sciences didactics
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health
- medical and health sciences health sciences social biomedical sciences sexual health
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases RNA viruses HIV
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
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0316 Oslo
Norway
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